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Clonal cooperation

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Widespread genetic heterogeneity in cells of human tumours poses a question: what prevents the fittest clone from taking over? A demonstration of interdependence between distinct clones might shed light on this puzzle. See Letter p.113

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Figure 1: Luminal and basal clones cooperate to form mammary tumours.

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  1. Kornelia Polyak and Andriy Marusyk are in the Department of Medical Oncology, and the Department of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,

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